Expeditive methodology for river water discharge evaluation

Recent aims and developments in water resource policies and management have been to achieve a high level of protection in both river systems as well as in the environment by natural hazard prevention and/or reduction. In river water management, the lack of direct field measures resulting from the necessity to dedicate long periods of time and effort represents a weakness in control and forecasting procedures. This paper is in reference to a detailed series of monitoring activities performed on Lucanian Rivers by applying the expeditive methodology for water discharge measurement and assessment, which is capable of maintaining a high quality data and results. Furthermore, this analysis allows us to show the results obtained by adopting the entropy velocity distribution (Chiu 1988) on the data collected using the reduced point method and by performing sensitive analyses on the entropy parameter, thus showing low variation in the estimation of water discharge.